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At dawn, the convoy rolled slowly across a stretch of uneven ground, its engines humming with a steady confidence. Dust rose and settled again, clinging to the steel sides of the vehicles that carried soldiers toward an uncertain horizon. These were armoured personnel carriers, machines designed not for spectacle but for survival. Their story is not one of sales pitches or glossy brochures, but of evolving needs, hard lessons learned, and quiet engineering choices shaped by conflict, peacekeeping, and geography.
The origins of armoured personnel carriers trace back to a simple but urgent question faced by military planners decades ago: how do you move infantry safely across dangerous terrain? Early armies relied on trucks or half-tracks, offering speed but little protection. As warfare changed, especially during the mid-20th century, the vulnerability of exposed troops became impossible to ignore. Designers began enclosing transport vehicles in steel, giving birth to a new…